Trying Out My New Diggs

I’ve decided take a short trip to WordPress and sit a while to see how I like it. The journey from Blogger was smooth and quick. Not a bump along the way. The view is different here and I’m just getting used to all the knobs and buttons on the dashboard so bear with me [...]

Library Book Sales

Today we hit the library book sale in downtown Portsmouth. If you haven’t been to one of these you should go. Just check your local library website for information. Most have a Friends of the Library organization for fundraising which holds a book sale either once a month or a couple of times a year. [...]

It’s 7/11 Know What That Means?…Free Slurpees!

Happy 7/11 Day! Get a FREE Slurpee today between 7 AM and 11 PM at participating 7 Eleven Stores. Enjoy! Sluuuuuurp

Free Starbucks Iced Coffee on Wednesdays

Too bad today is not Wednesday, I could use one of these…a double shot. I was up from 3:00 to 5:00 AM with a crying 10 month old and a whiny 3 year old. Yawn…Print out this card for a free iced coffee from Starbucks….Yum-O! If you are unable to download this email me at [...]

Wordless Wednesday

A rare moment of sibling revelry.

Bored Outta My Gourd

Today was one of those days when I felt frustrated and cranky. Two of my monkeys have fevers so we were pretty much house bound. And, the weather lately has gone between hazy, hot, humid and smoky (thanks to local wild fires) to full on severe thunder storms (boomer shoots, my son used to call [...]

Mom, Your Knees Are Old

So here I am, screaming toward my 35th birthday and hating every minute of it. I don’t know why but 35 bothers me way more than 30 did. I was the same way at 25. It’s the mid-decade crisis. I guess it’s that I’m leaving my early thirties behind and will now be in [...]

We Got Our Lemonade Stand!

Hooray it’s here! Delivered via Fed Ex, no less. Our free lemonade stand. It’s totally cool, surprisingly well made and the kids are ecstatic. The kids decided they wanted to help animals, so we will be donating our sales profits to the Mid Atlantic Great Dane Rescue. We’ve got lemonade, cookies and brownies. Now, if [...]

Fabulous Food, Friendly Faces, and Fizzled Fireworks

So, the 4th was great fun. We had some friends over for a bbq and we all had a great time, despite the muggy heat and mosquitoes. We ended up cramming into our dining room to escape the bugs. The food was great and we had an abundance of desserts…my favorite Afterwards [...]

Wordless Wednesday

Three in the bed and the little one said, “zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…”